Improvement in breastpins



` To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. PEASE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREASTPINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,902, dated July 30, 1872.

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. PEA-E,

of Boston,`in the county of Suffolk and State Figure 1 shows a perspective of a breastpin Y with my safety-fastening, and Figs. 2 and 3 a side and top view of my safety-pin without being attached to any special article.

Many devices have been made to prevent the loss of articles of jewelry when attached to clothing, but most of them are either too complicated or are inefficient.

My device is simple and cheap, and may be attached to any of the common pin-fastenings as now generally used in breastpins, brooches, and the like, andmay be used on shawl-pins, diaper-pins, and any of the common pins for fastenings for clothing.

The following description will enable persons skilled in the art to make and use my invention.

In the drawing, A is the socket-end or head of the pin; B, a spiral or screw formed about the middle of the pin; and G, its sharp end or point. E shows any ordinary breastpin with the common hook or loop D for holding the end of the pin.

To use this pin the end C is pressed through the cloth or other fabric till the spiral B comes tothe fabric. It is then turned till the spiral passes through. The point is then passed through the fabric, and then caught in the loop D in the ordinary manner. In case the loop D gives way or the pin slips freni it the spi-ral or screw still holds the pin in the cloth and prevents the loss of the pin. In shawl and similar pins the loop is not required.

I am aware that shirt-studs have been made with a shank in the form of a, screw, and that pins for fastening jewelry and for other purposes have been made with a large socket at one end, a catch or loop at the other; these, therefore, I do not claim; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

: The improved safety-pin herein described,

made by forming a screw or spiral at or near the middlae of the pin, so as to operate substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.l

CHARLES A. PEASE.

Witnesses:

HENRY G. SAVAGE, J. A. PEAsE. 

